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Saturday 4th June - 27th November 2011: Following intense preperation, Tim Davies unveiled his installation at the Venice Biennale. His exhibition and 2 new site responsive works made in Venice especially for Wales' presentation at the Venice Biennale of Art.
Monday 11th July – 29th July: Ken Elias, Ceri Thomas Thin Partitions and Heather Eastes exhibit in Cardiff at the Senedd Gallery from 11th - 15th July and Futures Gallery Pierhead 4th-29th July. Open Monday to Saturday 10.30 - 16.30 National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay www.assemblywales.org
Saturday 16th July, 11am: Patrick McGuinness discusses his first novel, The Last Hundred Days. Clwb Canol Dre, Gwyll Arall (Another) Festival Friday 15th - Sunday 17th. Visit Palas Print for more information
Saturday 16th July: Latitude Festival. The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy the book's editors Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss and David Woolley, will be joined by contributors to the book to read a selection of the poetry.
Saturday 16th July - 10th September 2011: Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery will be hosting 'Bog-Mawnog', an exhibition of new Arts Council of Wales funded work by artists Elizabeth Adeline, Lin Charlston, Kirsty Claxton, Deborah Aguirre Jones, Christopher Meredith and Pip Woolf. Their work is in response to an area of eroding peat, on Pen Trumay, started by a mountain fire in 1976.
Wednesday 20th July 7pm: Paul Henry 'Workshop' at Bookish, Crickhowell. 'The Paint in the Pen' This workshop will consider the imagist and the martian schools of poetry before encouraging a visual approach to writing, You will look at short verse forms, ranging from haiku to englyn, as a means of helping you to wirte economically but with resonance.
Thursday 28th July, 6-7pm: Pascale Petit reads from her latest collection What the Water Gave Me at the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. In association with the Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera exhibition. 9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1TJ info@pallant.org.uk 01243 774557 www.pallant.org.uk
Wednesday 3rd August, 7pm: Paul Henry 'Workshop' at Bookish, Crickhowell. 'The Power of Memory' - The challenge of writing out of the well of memory, You will look at poems by Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, exploring techniques for making the past urgent again and avoiding sentimentality.
Poem of the Month
Writing King Kong by Robert Seatter
It’s where I stop in my daily walk,
at the corner of 5th Avenue, 33rd and 34th St., budge that obstacle against my daily sun, blink away its shadow. The Empire State Building – just a giant toy, a large crick in my neck. A version of that ceaseless night train clattering along its broken tracks… another train, another robbed and sleepless hour. All the things that elude me stay in my mind, stick to my pen. Love given is forgotten, a bed I lie on to dream my dreams of somewhere else, but that girl in the penthouse, on Hollywood Blvd., with her faraway small teeth that make her faraway perfect smile, sharp as a photograph, I could carry forever in my suit breast pocket; that elusive novel inscribed with gold letters, ‘Merian C. Cooper’ along its spine, which waits in the bookstore on 33rd East, 17th St., it never flickers out inside the dark; or that sleep of mine…
So I’ll move his black arms to open the latch
of her doll’s house window, push the tallest tower into a puff of dust, or – before that – make this detour to twitch the train off its airfix bridge. Now there’s sleep and sky and her perfect smile for me. Could I write it any better?
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